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This last week, we made our way cross country for the Monterey Car Week. There, we spent a couple days wandering the California coast and taking in simply breathtaking views of the beautiful shoreline most amazing builds in both cars and girls. It's a glorified frat party for the elbow-rubbing frenemies of the auto world, the biggest of its kind. From timeless Ferraris and space-age Lambos to Playmates at sunset and a Mercedes all-nighter, there wasn't a moment we weren't redlining ourselves.

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1. Jaguar Comes Roaring Back The British Automaker's three-year resurgence has come to a head with their newest sports car, the F-Type. We took it for a spin which, in turn, tugged at all our good parts, in all the right ways. The V8 engine blew loud kisses — or arguably hoisted up big middle fingers — at everyone we passed, but the cheaper, quieter, and ultimately more desirable V6 hugged the road the same. It’s a toss up depending on your level of investment, but we’d gladly take either off their hands.

2. Gal Gadot is Smoking Hot, Also Competent Driver We shouldn't forget that the F-Type is simply stunning: the present pinnacle of functional design; a God-like creation. As is Fast & Furious star Gal Gadot. We rode shotgun while she settled into the cockpit for the first time and showed off her prowess behind the wheel. (She did her own stunts in the most recent of the increasingly more entertaining Vin Diesel-Paul Walker vehicle.) Both machine and woman will be profiled here early next week. Both have stayed on our mind since we met last Friday.

3. Ferrari Sets Auction RecordsRM Auctions puts together a great show and even better auction. The type of auction where "crazy" bids — which aren't even viewed as that crazy to these enthusiasts — start at $6-7 million, and everything else is a happy hour deal. This go-around saw a one-in-ten 1967 Ferrari 275 GTB/4*S NART Spyder set an auction record (most paid at US public sale, second-most worldwide) of $27.5 million all of which is going to charity. Prominent North Carolina businessman Eddie Smith Jr. represented his family and late father (the senior to his junior) at the proceedings.

4. These People Are Strange, In A Good Way Not all auction-goers are as charitable as the Smiths, though, and you never know who is going to show up. And in what. Forget the three-piece suits and coiffed haircuts of fine art auctions. You're more likely to see an oversized Aloha shirt here. And the guy in the decades-old New Balances? He's the envy of the parking lot. The only wardrobe that matters to these gearheads is that which sits in the garage.

5. Vintage Car Race Makes for Vintage Car Porn The timeless classics that roll onto the 18th fairway at Pebble Beach were as timeless and as classic as ever. But seeing timeless classics revving their engines and spitting out laps on the hallowed Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca is enough to make us forget about the Maserati girl we met at the bar the night before. Imagine seeing the 1960 Cunningham Corvette #3 — the same exact one that won its class at the grueling Le Mans back in ’60 — staring down the infamous Corkscrew turn. This year’s Corvette tribute saw to it that many people did.

6. Lamborghini's Out of Its Mind Though the “main attraction” at Pebble Beach might be the tried-and-true, the concept lawn blew minds into a fourth vehicular dimension that the likes of Lamborghini Chief of Design Manfred Fitzgerald dwell in. And the Italian sports car manufacturers presented perhaps the most mind blowing concept — well actually two concepts — as “bookends of innovation”: sitting side-by-side, the $3.9 million Veneno supercar (debuted at the Geneva Motor Show) and the 350 GT’s predecessor, the 350 GTV, brought to the 1963 Turin Auto Show and their oldest known vehicle.

7. A Tank of Gas Costs $150 Out Here Speaking of Pebble Beach, the town itself knows how to squeegee the last dollar out its patrons and make the most of a week's worth of guttural bursts from every other tailpipe. Gas was a friendly $6.25. Think a fanny pack outs you to beggars in Southeast Asia? How about an Aston Martin Vantage in a county that already knows its weekend visitors aren't the money-grubbing sort.

8. Jaguar and Mercedes Know How to Party Vueve Clicquot, hand-rolled cigars, and Playmate of the Year Raquel Pomplun were enough to bring a rambunctious bunch to the shindig Jaguar co-hosted with Playboy, after which most made their way over to the Mercedes thumper that screeched into the wee hours.